---
title: "Critical Thinking in the AI Age"
artifact: "highlights"
resource_person: "Advait Sarkar"
resource_person_role: "Senior researcher at Microsoft Research and lecturer at Cambridge and UCL"
vertical: "technology"
module: "Emerging EdTech Trends"
lesson: "Critical Thinking in the AI Age"
lesson_key: "critical-thinking-in-the-ai-age"
source: "curated"
source_channel: "TED"
---
# Critical Thinking in the AI Age: Highlights

**Resource person:** Advait Sarkar - Senior researcher at Microsoft Research and lecturer at Cambridge and UCL

**Curated from:** TED

1. Outsourced reason describes a workflow where the person mainly approves completed machine output.
2. The research concerns cover idea diversity, critical-thinking effort, memory and metacognition.
3. A tool for thought keeps the user directly engaged with source material.
4. Contextual critiques and counterarguments can stimulate judgement even when the user rejects them.
5. Generation follows the user’s decisions about evidence, structure and purpose.
6. The three design principles are material engagement, productive resistance and metacognitive scaffolding.